The Charlotte News
Monday, February 10, 1958
THREE EDITORIALS
Site Ed. Note: The front page reports that 13 Senators, including five Republicans, were co-sponsoring legislation introduced by Senator Paul Douglas of Illinois to encourage racial integration of schools and to compel compliance with Supreme Court decisions in that field if necessary. The measure would provide the Attorney General with authority to seek Federal court injunctions for the protection of civil rights assembly, a proposal which had been defeated the previous year after a bitter debate. Senator Douglas said that a companion measure was also being introduced in the House. The legislation would authorize appropriation of 12.5 million dollars during the ensuing five years for Federal assistance to states and local governments in developing community understanding and plans for school integration. In addition, Federal grants of 40 million dollars per year for each of the ensuing five years would be authorized for school buildings, the employment of additional teachers and other costs incident to eliminating racial segregation. Senator Douglas noted that under that section, funding could be made available to local communities which wished to comply with the Supreme Court's decisions, but where, as in Georgia and Virginia, the state threatened to cut off funding or close the schools. Should efforts to achieve voluntary compliance fail, the HEW Secretary would be empowered by the legislation to draw up school integration plans to align with Brown v. Board of Education. If the Secretary were unable to secure acceptance from state or local officials of such plans, the Attorney General would be authorized to seek Federal court injunctions to force compliance. The remainder of the bill, under which the Attorney General could obtain injunctions against violations of civil rights generally, would revive, in somewhat altered form, a section which had been stricken by the Senate the previous year from the Administration's 1957 Civil Rights Act. That Act had been the first civil rights legislation enacted since the end of Reconstruction, but limited the use of injunctions to the protection of voting rights. Attorney General William Rogers said that if Congress were to pass in the current year the provisions it had eliminated from the bill the previous year, he would recommend that the President sign the new measure. He added in a television interview that the Administration would not request such action. Mr. Rogers had said earlier that he would recommend no new Administration proposals on civil rights during the current year.
In the House, a fight over financing the six-member Civil Rights Commission, formed pursuant to the 1957 Civil Rights Act, was taking place on the floor this date, and possibly would catch many absent members off guard, as many members, anticipating no controversy, had arranged to be out of the city for Lincoln Day speeches and other matters. The fight could delay action on the first regular money bill of the year, to finance the White House and general Government matters. The President had asked Congress to provide $200,000 for the Commission's current year activities and $750,000 for its coming fiscal year work starting July 1.
Congressman Morgan Moulder of Missouri said this date that Bernard Schwartz, the controversial counsel of a special subcommittee investigating Federal regulatory agencies, was still with the committee.
Senator Mike Mansfield of Montana called this date for "a decade of worldwide scientific cooperation", including Russia, to follow-up similar efforts during the International Geophysical Year.
In London, British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd had left by plane for Athens this date to discuss the future of Cyprus with Greek Government officials.
In Jakarta, Indonesia, rebel leaders in Sumatra were calling for a "holy war" unless Prime Minister Djuanda's Cabinet was kicked out. But they had not taken the threatened step yet of setting up their own regime.
In Asuncion, Paraguay, President Alfredo Stroessner and 60 members of the Congress had been returned to office in a nationwide plebiscite, all having run unopposed in the balloting the previous day. El Presidente was elected to a five-year term. He had run without opposition in a special election on July 11, 1954 after gaining power through a brief military revolt which ousted President Federico Chaves.
In Vatican City, Pope Pius XII this date attended a memorial mass in the Sistine Chapel for his predecessor, Pope Pius XI, who had died February 10, 1939, after reigning for 17 years.
In Munich, four survivors of an air crash which had killed 21 persons the previous Thursday remained in critical condition this date. Two were members of Britain's champion Manchester United soccer team.
In Albany, N.Y., it was reported that residents struggled this date in near-zero temperatures against paralyzing snowdrifts which stranded hundreds of persons, immobilized industry and closed the schools. New snow threatened many upstate areas already buried under drifts up to 15 feet deep. The Weather Bureau indicated that snow squalls near the Great Lakes would taper off by Wednesday. The cities of Syracuse and Utica proclaimed emergency measures to try to dig out so that closed plants could resume production, as more than 50,000 workers in the two cities were idle. In Jackson, Miss., there was a two-inch accumulation of snow. Ice collected on exposed surfaces, including highways as far northward as Nebraska. The nation's apparent low was 25 below zero, recorded at Greenville on Moosehead Lake in Maine.
A polar cold front had struck the Carolinas this date as the Weather Bureau hinted that the following day's weather would be harsher than that of this date. The temperature had dropped to 19 in Charlotte and Wilmington had suffered a low of 23, while it was 12 in Asheville and 16 in Winston-Salem. Rain or snow was possible for the following day, with 22 forecast for the morning low and a high of 45 for the afternoon. This date's high was expected to be 43. The previous day had a low of 16, which, along with February 3, were the coldest days of the month. The February temperature now averaged five degrees below the norm. Mt. Mitchell had a low the previous night of one degree below zero. An area of the Black Mountains where Yancey, Buncombe and McDowell Counties converged, was still under a 20-inch blanket of ice and snow which had covered the region for ten days. Mt. Mitchell during the morning had a 50 mph wind from the northwest. Engineers at radio station WMIT's transmitter building atop Clingman's Dome near Mt. Mitchell had been able to leave their snowbound home on Saturday by walking seven miles, then riding in a jeep to Marion for supplies. It does not indicate whether the station's transmitter would be able to thaw out sufficiently to resume broadcasting, and supply the state with its missing Muzak for the benefit and cultural enhancement of all habitual elevator riders.
In Jersey City, N.J., a broken water main threatened cave-ins or explosions in a third of the city this date, prompting authorities to close schools and industrial plants in the affected area. Some residents had begun to move out. More than a thousand police officers, firemen, City and Hudson County workers had searched frantically for the break in the city's 54-year old water system, as water pressure built up underground. Fire officials warned of the danger of fires, and fire apparatus was rushed to a small blaze in the heart of the stricken area early in the morning, which proved to be only a garbage truck ablaze. The fire chief ordered the plants and schools to be closed for the day in an effort to keep water consumption to a minimum and in case of fire. Partial water service had been subsequently restored to residents and fire hydrants in the affected area by raising the pressure in the water pipes. A state of emergency was declared by the public works director, who informed the State Government of the matter.
In Decatur, Ga., a woman who had been convicted of stealing $186,000 from a medical clinic trust was sentenced this date to 2 to 5 years in prison on each of two counts, the sentences to run concurrent, following the recommendation of the jury. Seated in a wheelchair with eyes closed, the woman gave no sign that she heard the judge pass her sentence. She been brought to the courtroom from a hospital in Atlanta where she had been under observation during the weekend for recurring fainting spells since the verdict had been rendered on Friday. Her attorney had informed the court that she was in sufficient physical and mental condition to be sentenced. Still pending against her in Dekalb County were two forgery charges, and the solicitor said she would be tried on those unless some other disposition was made before the end of the current term of court.
In San Francisco, a teenager, 5
feet, 3 inches tall, who had not been taken seriously as a robber,
had shot down three persons and then said: "If I had a machine
gun, I really would've cut loose." The 18-year old boy—who
saw eye to eye with Charles Manson, though having to look up slightly to Charles Starkweather—had been taken to a hospital the
previous day to see his victims but even that apparently did not
impact him. At the City jail, he remarked: "I saw 'em laying
there. Who knows if I should've felt something… Anyway I
didn't." All of the victims of his ten-minute shooting spree in
two locations had been reported in good condition this date and in no
danger. The youth, from Renton, Wash., had walked into a tavern on
Geary Street at around 1:00 a.m., wearing a black leather jacket, a
T-shirt and jeans. No one believed him when he demanded money. He
then drew a .32-caliber automatic pistol and told patrons to walk to
the back of the tavern. One of them asked, "What for?"
Police said that the youth then shot that man with one bullet in the
upper thigh and then turned the gun on a 61-year old man who had
walked over from the bar, hitting him in the stomach. He told police:
"I don't know anything about it, but there was this one old
lady… She got on my nerves. Then somebody started pushing me
and some other guy tried to rush me. So I started shooting. That's
all." Without obtaining any money, he ran four blocks to a hotel
on Turk Street, where he pulled his gun on the 61-year old clerk, who
gave him $45 from the cash drawer and one dollar from his person. The
youth then ordered the clerk to turn around and proceeded to shoot
him three times in the back, according to police. The youth had said:
"I got mad at him. He was acting kind of smart, so, I shot him.
He acted foreign. I don't like foreigners, so I let him have it…
That's all." Two patrolmen had spotted the youth minutes later
and jumped him before he could drag his gun from a shoulder holster.
There had been one bullet left in the chamber. The young man's father
said that he was mixed up with the wrong people. "But, my God, I
never thought it would come to something like this. I knew he
couldn't settle down and he liked to fool around… But this
shooting is something else." He was booked on two counts of
attempted murder and two counts of attempted robbery. He was also
held for the U.S. Marshal as a deserter from the Air Force. It is too bad that
he had acted so impetuously before seeing this drama
In New York, the mother of a teenage witness in the trial of seven youths charged with murder said this date that her son had been threatened with death if the defendants were convicted.
In Rocky Mount, N.C., a husky former
policeman said that two or three men had overpowered and robbed him
of just over $26,000 at his used car lot early this date. He had
fired two shots from a revolver as the men fled in a car headed north
on U.S. 301, but did not think that he had hit the vehicle, which had
Virginia license tags. He said he had only been at his place for
about ten minutes and was coming into the showroom when a young man
in a sailor's uniform entered the front door, at which point he asked
if he could help him, and just as he did so, was jumped from behind and
never saw the man or men who hit him or anything after that point
during the struggle. The man, or men, had twisted a wire around his
throat and taken the money from his person, including $24,000 in
cash, plus $2,075 in checks and money orders. He gave no reason for
having the large sum of money on his person, but his secretary said
that he had been to an automobile auction the prior Thursday and had
intended to deposit the money on Saturday, but found the banks
closed. He said that he knew definitely that at least two men had
participated in the holdup and that possibly there had been a third.
The dealer operated two lots in Rocky Mount and had been a police
officer there before entering private business about seven years
earlier. The police said that they did not think the robbery was
planned and that it was chance that the holdup men caught the used
car dealer with such a large sum of money. Maybe they had gotten the
idea from this program
In Asheville, N.C., it was reported that a ten-year old boy, barefoot in icy, 20-degree weather, had been found late the previous night after a five-hour search of the mountainous Reems Creek area. He told his rescuers that he had fled from a neighbor who had come to take him and his younger brother home from the neighbor's home. The neighbor had told the boys' parents that the two boys feared punishment because they had slipped away from his home at around noon and had not returned. He said that they fled when he came upon them at the home of another neighbor in the area. He said that the boy who had finally been found had run out of his shoes and disappeared with his dog into a wooded area. But the boy said that he took off his shoes and socks so he could run faster, crossed the creek on ice and wandered around until he came to a shed where he had gone into hiding, with the temperature under 20 degrees. The boy's dog, Brownie, had led to the discovery of his whereabouts. A man who had joined the search party said that he heard the dog whining and was led by the noise to the spot where the boy and dog were found. The boy was taken by ambulance to a hospital in Asheville where he was placed under observation for signs of exposure. Hospital attendants said that he was shivering and that his feet were red, but that further investigation was necessary to determine whether he had any injuries. He had a tearful reunion with his mother at the hospital, asking her where his dog was. The boy's father, a member of the search party, was informed that the boy had been found but he had not reached the hospital by early during the morning. The search party had been made up of sheriffs' deputies, members of the Weaverville and Enka Volunteer Fire Departments, Boy Scouts and neighbors. He is liable to get a tanning browner than Brownie.
On the editorial page, "A Consolidated Education System Will Keep County's Schools Strong" indicates that county residents had nothing to lose and much long-range security to gain by supporting the proposal to merge the Charlotte City and Mecklenburg County school systems.
If a surge of suburban sentiment in favor of consolidation was being felt, its cause was Oliver Rowe, whose skillful documentation of the necessity of consolidation the previous week before the largest countywide PTA gathering in Mecklenburg's history had been a masterpiece of persuasive discernment. Mr. Rowe, distinguished citizen and good friend of public education, had recommended consolidation "as a practical move, while the county is in a strong position, and in order to assure that the entire taxable wealth of Mecklenburg County, including the City of Charlotte, be put behind each child's education."
The County system had fine schools, but the question was whether they would remain so in the future if the richest source of supplemental financial support was removed, with the extension of Charlotte's city limits. About half of the taxable wealth of the County school system was in the perimeter and loss of it would almost wreck the County school system. It provides some statistics set forth by Mr. Rowe to back up the premise.
He had also indicated that the County had developed the 6-3-3 system of schools, before which it would not have hurt to have taken away part of the territory and part of the schools, as the schools had then been small, self-contained units, most of which having had grades 1 through 12 in the same building and pupils coming from the territory surrounding each school. But now, under the modern plan of six elementary grades, three junior high grades and three high school grades, each school fed pupils into another, and the removal of an elementary school from the system could not occur without it impacting the junior high and high schools. If the County school system lost the perimeter area, it would lose eight elementary schools and the system would lose pupils presently attending other schools, including 30 percent of the students at West Mecklenburg Senior High, 41 percent at East Mecklenburg Senior High, 30 percent in Berryhill, 25 percent in Wilson Junior High, 22 percent in Derita, 20 percent in Statesville, 30 percent in Idlewild, 51 percent in Sharon, and 62 percent in McClintock Junior High, 30 percent in all. The entire system would thus be disrupted.
It concludes that consolidation promised equal educational opportunities for all children always and that a single school system with uniformly high standards would help all residents of the county achieve that lofty ideal.
"Welcome to an Era of Stress & Strain" indicates that Stuart Chase had said: "The idea that now … America can return to the piping times of Mayor Walker, Wall Street mergers and flagpole sitters is a dangerous illusion. It's getting citizens off-balance for the tangible events which are now hitting them and going to hit them. The world is passing through its greatest stress and change and turmoil since the break-up of the Roman Empire in the fifth century A.D."
The piece finds that if he believed U.S. citizens were not serious-minded and deeply concerned about the current state of affairs, then he had not been reading the newspapers. The previous week the New York Times had reported that the Treasury was "swamped with protest" that a U.S. flag depicted on the back of the $10 bill had the stars placed at the bottom. It had also been reported that U.S. Congressmen were being "swamped with mail" on the question of pay television. Senator Charles Potter of Michigan had reported that he was getting mail demanding that Congress do something about Paris fashions.
Just because Congress was not being swamped with mail about education, nuclear fallout, social reforms, foreign affairs, presidential disability and defense did not mean Americans were not concerned about those things. It finds that of course they were, that they were just more concerned about money, television and fashions.
"Memo to a Target" indicates that White House chief of staff Sherman Adams, roundly rebuked by the nation's press for playing politics with the defense issue, had been selected as a major Democratic target for the year. Mr. Adams had made a bitterly partisan speech in Minneapolis on January 20, which had caused the outrage and, according to newsmen in Washington, it was a good adage for men in such a delicate position as Mr. Adams to follow, to keep one's words soft and sweet, because one never knew when one might have to eat them.
A piece from the Wall Street Journal, titled "Applesauce", indicates that many parents had been wondering about the "benefits" of progressive and semi-progressive education. Some teachers were wondering about it also.
A New York City teacher said of her sixth graders that they were healthy, happy children, but added that they did not learn much in school. A Bronx teacher talked of "critical reading", "citizenship", and "development of the whole child", adding, "My children formerly had mastered grammar and decimals by the time they'd finished the fifth grade," but now were "terribly retarded" in grammar and still studying "concepts" in math. But in "painting, clay-modeling and sewing", they were in "fine shape".
At the University of Illinois, a quarter of the new freshmen had to take a non-credit course in remedial English, starting with third grade grammar and spelling. At Portland State College's School of Engineering in Oregon, about 60 percent of the new students had to take a course in "bonehead math", starting with advanced fractions and elementary algebra, the head of the physics department finding it "a sorry situation".
It indicates that it saw little room for improvement until the parents and teachers raised their voices even higher about some of the things that were going on in academic circles, and saw no chance for the youngsters as long as schools did as the New York City school curriculum provided, limiting first grade students to learning numbers between one and ten, but teaching them to make applesauce.
If you happen to think that you are experiencing déjà vu all over again, this same litany had previously been set forth on the editorial page in January.
Drew Pearson indicates that newsmen covering the Moulder Committee probe of finagling inside the FCC had been flabbergasted at the manner in which four Republican and three Democratic Congressmen had gone out of their way to protect FCC witnesses, heckling, interrupting, objecting to testimony, as if Dr. Bernard Schwartz, their counsel, were under investigation rather than the FCC commissioners who had taken travel expenses from the radio and television industry and then collected from the taxpayers. He finds that apparently the seven hecklers did not think the taxpayers were entitled to know how their money was being spent. The seven were Congressmen Joseph O'Hara of Minnesota, John Heselton of Massachusetts, Robert Hale of Maine, John Bennett of Michigan, all Republicans, and Oren Harris of Arkansas, John Flynt of Georgia, and John Bell Williams of Mississippi, all Democrats.
Following the Venezuelan revolt against its dictator Jimenez, it was learned that a group of Hungarian refugees had revolted against another dictator, Generalissimo Raphael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic. The previous year, Sr. Trujillo had made a dramatic gesture to Hungarian refugees by offering to settle them in the Dominican Republic. Between 600 and 700 had accepted the invitation but were given almost nothing to do and a mosquito-infested area near the Haitian border in which to be idle. Finally, they had rebelled and ten of them had been thrown in jail, with the balance having stormed the jail and released their leaders, at which point the Dominican Army had attacked. The Hungarians, using sticks and stones, the same weapons they had used against Russian tanks in Budapest in the fall of 1956, had counterattacked and the Dominican Army, placed in the embarrassing position of firing against unarmed refugees, had retreated. Following the fracas, about half of the Hungarians had decided that they preferred the dictatorship of Nikita Khrushchev back in Hungary to the dictatorship of Sr. Trujillo and so returned to their native land.
He indicates that it would be interesting to watch how Oklahoma Congressmen would vote in the future on Navy Department appropriations. The Navy had flown Oklahoma Congressmen to the state Gridiron Dinner at Oklahoma City recently, with Rear Admiral William Raborn, a native of Oklahoma, arranging the junket.
He congratulates Tam Craven, one of the long-term FCC commissioners who had refused to accept a color television set and free service from the radio and television industry in exchange for favors.
Joseph Alsop, in Berlin, tells of a scene at a bleak restaurant at Tempelhoff Airport in Berlin, shortly after a bitter foreign policy debate in the West German Parliament. Gustav Heinemann, once a member of the Cabinet of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and presently a neutralist Socialist, was sitting at one of the tables after passionately denouncing the Chancellor in the Bonn debate. He was being questioned by Mr. Alsop, who provides approximately the resulting dialogue.
Mr. Alsop had stated that, given that the Soviets had said that they only wanted to negotiate "on the basis of the status quo", which entailed some type of Communist rule in East Germany, it was hard to understand how the status quo could be consecrated without the abandonment of West Berlin, thus causing him to wonder whether Herr Heinemann would advise the Western allies to consider such conditions, to which the latter stated, with horror, "Of course not."
He had then asked him what he thought the Western allies ought do if the Soviets were to again blockade Berlin as in 1948-49, to which he responded that they should start another airlift. Mr. Alsop had indicated that the new radar jamming devices would prevent all-weather landings at Templehoff, the backbone of the airlift at that earlier time, suggesting that such an airlift would therefore not work again. Herr Heinemann, following a long pause, said that Berlin should therefore be relieved by an armored column. Mr. Alsop indicated that it had been the idea of General Lucius Clay but that Herr Heinemann was an advocate of the so-called Rapacki Plan, which would have the effect of depriving the Western forces of tactical nuclear weapons while leaving such weapons in the hands of the Soviets, thus wanting to know how an armored column could be deployed under those conditions. He had replied indignantly that he had always said the Plan had to be controlled, that he would not have one side give up atomic weapons unless the other side also did so.
Mr. Alsop then asked him about the experience in Korea with "controls" applied to Communist armies, suggesting that no control of the Plan could possibly be relied upon unless Western control teams had the right to open every truck and railroad car entering Poland and East Germany, wondering whether the Soviets would accept such control. Herr Heinemann, after another long pause, had said that he did not think that they would.
Mr. Alsop then said that President Eisenhower could not accept any weaker form of control after the experience in Korea, that otherwise he would have to assume that the other side possessed nuclear arms while U.S. forces did not and he would therefore be morally bound to withdraw the American divisions from Germany, wanting to know whether Herr Heinemann favored such a unilateral American withdrawal, leaving the Soviets in the Eastern Zone. Herr Heinemann said that he certainly did not. Mr. Alsop then asked him whether he was mistaken in supposing that he favored the Rapacki Plan, to which he again responded that he only favored it as a basis for negotiation, that maybe it was not a good plan or perhaps was even worthless, but that it should be taken as a starting point for talks. Mr. Alsop asked whether, in publicly welcoming the Plan and urging negotiations on that basis, without ever hinting that the Plan was worthless, he was not deceiving his own people by raising false hopes. Herr Heinemann responded that Mr. Alsop was speaking the language of the cold war which he believed in ending.
Mr. Alsop indicates that throughout the dialogue, Herr Heinemann quite visibly had wriggled with discomfort every time he was asked to consider any of the hard facts of Germany's tragic situation. Such people as Herr Heinemann actively detested hard facts and loved false hopes, even regarding not cherishing those hopes as an assumption of bad character. He says that if one studied the dialogue, with all its evidence of false hopes, one would also find in it reasons for genuine hope. On the one hand, even such a German leader as Herr Heinemann retained a kind of sense of political reality, having not reached the ultimately wishful stage of favoring unilateral disarmament, for instance. But on the other hand, he was still an extreme and isolated case, at least in Germany. In contrast, Socialist leader Offenhauer and the vast majority of other advocates of negotiation for its sake were still somewhat toughly realistic under their political surfaces. So there was no need in Germany to fear any damaging paroxysm of wishfulness at the present. The time for it would only come if the West was further demoralized by further great defeats.
Robert C. Ruark, in London, says that he was informed that Edwardo Condon, possibly for cause, had been ejected from his smoky cavern in Greenwich Village and was presently assaulting the midnight air from the elite East Side, where Mr. Ruark hopes he would be happy, but doubts it.
Mr. Condon, a professional minstrel who specialized in jazz and was also a sort of bum like the writer, had been removed from his cave because NYU had bought all of the real estate in his sector of the Village. Mr. Ruark thinks it wrong, wonders whether they got the Mills Hotel also and encroached on his old digs in Minetta Street. He thinks that tearing down the El and making a boulevard of Sixth Avenue had started an unhealthy trend. He says that he was firmly an avowed enemy of all progress, would gladly give up the airplane and car if it put the buggy-whip factories back to work, would abjure penicillin if it raised the market value of sulphur and molasses.
He did not care for the cultured approaches to jazz, where it was reviewed and analyzed and called progressive or decadent or San Francisco versus New Orleans. He wants it left alone and the people allowed to enjoy the noise.
The late Jelly Roll Morton had been one of the fathers of jazz as it was known and he had raised Mr. Ruark in a loft on U Street in Washington after he had left New Orleans and Chicago, indicating that he would have been out of place in an air-conditioned palace full of chrome and fine feathers. Jazz needed a simulation of a murky New Orleans midnight or a low dive in Chicago. It called for dim lights and lousy service and a bunch of worthless people to make it jump, because jazz was about half audience participation.
"It is a strange thing, that when you uproot an art form from its natural habitat, something undefinable happens to the mood. I cite you the bistro of Joe and Tim Costello, where all the writing people used to hang out. It only moved one doorway, and the same folks still drink and eat there, but it has never really been the same." He suggests that when and if Toots Shor moved his joint to make way for progress, he could not imagine that it would provide the same slipshod magic which made the establishment the warmest in the city.
He hopes that did not happen to Mr. Condon, who was a better writer than he ever was a guitar player and who spoke prose which could only be described as architecturally modern. He had called Mr. Ruark once and said: "Meet me at the numerical place at the rich man's dawn, and we will have our psyches half-soled." He had translated it correctly as asking to meet him at the 21 Club at 6:00 p.m. and they would have a drink.
He hopes that progress did not get in the way of gutbucket blues and that the "tootlers and thumpers" would not go out of town just because they had a fresh location, as it had happened before when the boys were taken from the boondocks and introduced to shoes.
A letter writer finds the growing number of unemployed workers in North Carolina and other states to be a cause of great concern, wrecking the labor movement. The unemployment figure might soon rise above 5 million. He suggests that section 14-B of the Taft-Hartley Act had given birth to the so-called "right to work" laws, with North Carolina having such a law, supposedly guaranteeing the individual a statutory right to a job. He suggests that if that were the case, then readers should urge the newspaper to seek action by Governor Luther Hodges to invoke the right to work law and give the thousands of unemployed North Carolinians jobs. He says that perhaps "right to work" would be found to be a fraud and a misnomer, not guaranteeing a person any right at all.
A letter writer from Monroe indicates that the Charlotte Observer, on January 26, had printed an anonymous and fraudulent advertisement purportedly giving the pay television story to the public, and that on January 27, The News had printed the same anonymous and fraudulent ad. Also on January 27, stations WBTV and WSOC-TV had presented the dramatization of the "possible extremes" to which pay television could lead. The "facts" had been provided and viewers were urged to write their Congressman to outlaw pay television. On January 20, the Associated Press had reported from Washington that "letters, telegrams and petitions" were pouring into the offices of North Carolina and South Carolina members of Congress in opposition to pay television. He finds sarcastically that the democratic process had thus worked, that the pay television side of the problem had not been shown, that the public had not been presented with objective facts and permitted to make a proper decision, that instead, by means of anonymous and fraudulent newspaper advertisements, by means of an emotional television presentation and pressure, all of which preyed on the fears of the public, the public had been led to deluge Congress with protests against a medium of entertainment of which it knew nothing.
A letter writer from Arlington, Va., indicates that on April 27, those living in large parts of the East would go on Daylight Savings Time, and on October 26, would revert to Eastern Standard Time. He says that it upset most radio and television network programming, but Congress could not interfere with purely local time issues, except in Washington. He says that Congress could put all interstate commerce and communications under the Standard Time Act without reference to local time by a carrier or network. He thinks people should keep Congress informed as to what they wanted in reference to such issues.
We understand that His Highness has decided to eliminate, via executive order, all time and dates, removing all hands from watches and clocks, all digital lights as well, throughout the nation, under penalty of imprisonment if found to have one on one's person or in one's house, thus enabling a house-to-house search by the Timekeepers, a new efficiency administration to be headed by the barnyard Newspeak people within the Administration, led by Big Pig, Napoleon, with the ultimate goal, of course, of enabling His Highness to remain in office until he dies. But that is only a rumor.
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